The researchers examined the records of 481 people with dementia and compared them to 481 people of the same age and gender who did not have dementia. The average weight was the same for those in the two groups from 21 to 30 years before the year the disease was ...
The finding is the first indication of a chemical mechanism through which erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra may have physical effects besides increasing blood flow to sexual organs, says study author Meyer Jackson, a physiology professor at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Sometimes called the "love hormone" or ...
The accompanying image illustrates the stages of enzyme activity of the first step of folate biosynthesis: free enzyme (orange), enzyme with substrate bound (salmon), and enzyme with pyrophosphate bound (gold), superimposed on a drawing of E. coli and the folate biosynthetic pathway. The ...
The study found that people who stopped taking their cholesterol-lowering drugs, also called statins, while hospitalized after a stroke were 4.7 times more likely to have died or be dependent on others for their care three months after the stroke than people who kept taking the drugs. "These results strongly support ...
The study on dementia involved approximately 1,500 women who underwent the removal of one or both ovaries for non-cancer-related reasons, such as ovarian cysts, endometriosis, or for the prevention of ovarian cancer. The women were compared to an equal number of women who still had both ovaries at the beginning ...
The beverage preferences of excessive drinkers are important to public health because binge drinking is a common problem in the United States and because binge drinkers — and those around them — are especially vulnerable to alcohol-related problems, said lead study author Timothy Naimi, M.D. “This study isn’t looking at alcohol ...
Study author Ichiro Wakabayashi also found that the older men who participated — all in their 50s — were more susceptible to the blood pressure-boosting effects of heavy drinking than younger men. While there are signs that drinking can be good for the heart and boost good cholesterol levels, “this ...
"This study confirms adverse experiences, particularly childhood abuse, predispose women to health problems later in life, possibly by altering neurobiological systems," said study author Gretchen Tietjen, MD, with the University of Toledo-Health Science Campus and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers surveyed 949 women with migraine about their ...
In the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, a team based at the University of Chicago Medical Center show that almost 40 percent of participants in family-based treatment had stopped binging and purging compared to only18 percent of those who received supportive psychotherapy, the standard therapy. Six-months after treatment, ...
In a long-term study of 100,000 pregnant Norwegian women, the researchers saw an unexpected increase in new incidences of binge eating disorder that began during pregnancy. The research is the largest population-based study of eating disorders during pregnancy. Previously, small clinical studies had suggested that often eating disorders go into ...
The study followed 192 people with Alzheimer’s disease in New York for an average of four and a half years. During that time, 85 of the people died. Researchers found that those who most closely followed a Mediterranean diet were 76 percent less likely to die during the study period ...
"We found that over the course of a year, one in six women of reproductive age filled a prescription for a medication labeled by the Food and Drug Administration as increasing the risk of fetal abnormalities," said Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, M.D., assistant professor in the departments of medicine and obstetrics, ...
For the study, researchers analyzed the genes of 278 people with Parkinson’s disease and 179 people without the disease. The study found 14 percent of the people with Parkinson’s disease carried mutations in the glucocerebrosidase (GBA) gene compared to only five percent of people without the disease. The ...
The study found that what really impacted emotional distress - among both patients and their spouses - was whether the patient was newly diagnosed, facing a recurrence or living with advanced disease. Researchers looked at 263 men with prostate cancer and their spouses. Participants were recruited from three large cancer ...
The six-year study involved 3,885 community dwelling people over age 65 in Chicago, IL. Of the participants, nearly 25 percent were obese with a body mass index (BMI) over 30, and 37 percent were overweight with a BMI between 25 and 29.9. Four cognitive tests were given at the beginning ...
The study out of Finland followed 1,388 participants through middle-age and late life for an average of 21 years. The participants were divided into three levels: five or less years of education (low), six to eight years (medium) and nine or more years of education (high), the Finnish equivalent of ...
The research is the largest population-based study to look at the effect of weight gain during pregnancy by obese expectant mothers, says Raul Artal, M.D., study author and chairman of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and women’s health at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "This study confirms what we’ve suspected ...
Patients take many medications each day. (Credit: University of Chicago Medical Center) A typical diabetes patient takes many medications each day, including two or three different pills to control blood sugar levels, one or two to lower cholesterol, two or more to reduce blood ...
Researchers say minocycline may be an alternative treatment for stroke because current treatments only work during the first few hours after the onset of symptoms, and many people don’t get to the hospital in time to be treated. For the study, 152 men and women received either an oral dose of ...
The study found 21 people had high levels of the protein, suggestive of brain damage, at the beginning of treatment. But after three months of taking HAART, those high levels of protein fell to normal levels in nearly half of the patients. After one year of treatment, only four ...
"The repair of chronic spinal cord injury is seldom modeled in laboratory studies, but it is an important reality for the treatment of humans. The concept of using natural human antibodies to treat disease of this kind has not yet been tested in humans, but these research findings are very ...
Researchers in the Netherlands surveyed 364 people at both the initial and secondary stages of MS, 263 of whom were smokers. The study showed there is no association between cigarette smoking and the progression of MS. Due to the high number of smokers with MS, it had previously been suggested ...
"Given our results and the growing burden of Parkinson’s disease as people age, there’s a pressing need for further studies explaining why these drugs may play a protective role," said study author Angelika D. Wahner, PhD, with the UCLA School of Public Health in Los Angeles. The study involved 579 men ...
DPIs rely on the force of patients’ inhalation to activate, deliver, and manage the flow of medication to the lungs, compared with pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs), that use propellants to deliver a measured dose of medication to the patient. Although MDIs are more commonly used in the United States, the ...
"The current common perception among the medical community is that if smokers age 65 and older haven’t quit by now, they can’t or won’t quit -- a perception which may lead physicians to focus less on their older patients’ smoking habit," said lead study author Virginia Reichert, NP, Center for ...
"By using this device in the office, the poisoning of the hemoglobin or blood with carbon monoxide can be detected and shown to the patient before they actually develop a clinical disease such as emphysema or cancer," said study author Sridhar P. Reddy, MD, MPH, FCCP, St. Clair Pulmonary and ...
The study found that part of the cortex area of the brain is thicker in people with migraine than in people who do not have the neurological disorder. Comparing 24 people with migraine to 12 people without migraine, the study found that the somatosensory cortex area of the brain was ...
"Continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, is a well-established treatment for sleep apnea," said lead study author Akram Khan, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Jacksonville, "and while most patients tolerate it well, some are unable to tolerate it or don’t want to, and those patients need alternative means of ...
Researchers found that a targeted intervention aimed at prostate cancer patients and their caregiver spouses provided significant improvements for the spouse in physical and emotional quality of life. "We need to provide more care and concern to the family caregiver of cancer patients. They have a vital role. We can ...
"For several years, our research team has focused on improving the quality of care delivered to critically ill patients and their families. When we began this study, we had assumed that families of dying patients would be less satisfied with their ICU experience because their loved ones didn’t make it ...